The Joint Committee on Human Rights is a select committee of both the House of Commons and House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The remit of the committee is to consider human rights issues in the United Kingdom.
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The Committee undertakes thematic inquiries on human rights issues and reports its findings and recommendations to the House[s of Commons and Lords]. It scrutinises all Government Bills and picks out those with significant human rights implications for further examination. The Committee also looks at Government action to deal with judgments of the UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights where breaches of human rights have been found. As part of this work, the Committee looks at Remedial Orders, the legislative mechanism that allows legislation to be amended in response to these judgments.— Source: Committee website [1]
As of 23 May 2011, the current members of the committee are as follows:
Source: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Occasionally, either house may order changes to its membership on the committee. Such changes are shown below.
| Date | Outgoing Member & Party |
Constituency | → | New Member & Party |
Constituency | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November 2010 | Andy Slaughter MP (Labour) | Hammersmith | → | Virendra Sharma MP (Labour) | Ealing Southall | Hansard | ||
| 9 March 2011 | Baroness Morris of Bolton (Conservative) | — | → | Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Conservative) | — | Hansard | ||
| 28 March 2011 | Eleanor Laing MP (Conservative) | Epping Forest | → | Rehman Chishti MP (Conservative) | Gillingham and Rainham | Hansard | ||
| 23 May 2011 | Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrats) | Cambridge | → | Michael Crockart MP (Liberal Democrats) | Edinburgh West | Hansard | ||